Extrait B: Artaud et le peyotl

Artaud sait enfin ce qu'est un "corps sans organes", obsession récurrente dans toute son oeuvre. Les organes sont ce qui gâche, ce qui pervertit la notion d'homme, car ils vont à l'encontre de l'idée d'unité. On sait le dégoût qu'il porte à cette représentation d'un homme "parcelé", où l'organe sexuel apparaît comme l'obscénité finale.

From: Hubert, Arnaud. "Artaud et le peyotl". 3 Jul 2007. http://www.antoninartaud.org/peyotl.html

This is where he gets his idea of being in pieces that we read in his poem (see the Antonin Artaud post). Also, in his essay: "Theater and the plague" he has this extreme fascination with the gall bladder, in which he describes the autopsy of a corpse which showed no external signs of the plague. The body is unable to release the toxins in the body. The gall bladder is filled with a substance that has solidified to such an extent that the organ crumbles as it is being examined. (Hope you weren't eating when you read that. I clearly succumbed to Artaud's fascination with this description, at the same time repulsed and attracted to the explanation. AAAAAAAIIIIEEEEE!!!).